Madame Edouard Manet

Artist Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)

Date1873

DimensionsH: 21 1/8 in. (53.7 cm); W: 15 1/4 in. (38.7 cm)

Framed in sealed package: H 35 1/4" W 29 1/2" D 4 3/4" A. Mall 11/21/12

MediumPastel on paper, mounted on canvas

ClassificationDrawings

Credit LineGift of Mrs. C. Lockhart McKelvy

Object number

1952.17

Not on View

Label TextSeen in Manet’s work in pastel, oil, and ink, his wife Suzanne Leenhoff (1829–1906) was a source of inspiration throughout the artist’s career. Like many of the portraits that were created of Suzanne, this profile image in pastel was meant purely for private consumption, functioning as both a site of experimentation for Manet and also as a site of intimate exchange between himself and his wife.Published ReferencesDuret, T., Manet and the French Impressionists, Philadelphia, 1910, p. 263, no. 2.

Duret, T., Histoire de Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre, 2nd Ed., Paris, 1919, p. 285, no. 2.

Moreau-Nélaton, E., Manet raconté par lui-mème, Paris, 1926, II, pp. 50, 141, fig. 234.

Tabarant, A., Manet, histoire catalographique, Paris, 1931, p. 447, no. 2.

Jamot, P., and G. Wildenstein, Manet, Paris, 1932, I, no. 312; II, fig. 244.

Tabarant, A., Manet et ses oeuvres, Paris, 1947, pp. 237, 259, no. 454.

Pool, P. and S. Orienti, The Complete Paintings of Manet, New York, 1967, no. 191, repr.

Venturi, Marcello, L'Opera pittorica di Edouard Manet, Milano, 1967, p. 103, repr. no. 91.

Rouart, D., and D. Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: catalogue raisonné, Lausanne and Paris, 1975, II, no. 2 (erroneously as 61 x 49 cm.).

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 101, pl. 246.

Manet, Tokyo, Kodansha, 1981, p. 116, repr. (col.) pl. 36, text in Japanese.

Adler, Kathleen, Manet, Oxford, 1986, pp. 209, 213, fig. 208.

Exhibition HistoryParis, Galerie Charpentier, Cent portraits de femmes, 1950, no. 67c.